Pecuniary Loss

Famous quotes containing the words pecuniary and/or loss:

“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”
—Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929)

“A gain is no joy, nor a loss any grief.”
—Chinese proverb.